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Switch (1975)

Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a deceptive sting operation. It was broadcast on the CBS network for three seasons between September 9, 1975 and August 20, 1978, bumping the Hawaii Five-O detective series to Friday nights.

Release Date: Tue, Sep 09, 1975

Country: US
Language: En
Runtime: 60

Eddie Albert
Frank MacBride
Charlie Callas
Malcolm Argos
Sharon Gless
Maggie Philbin
William Bryant
Lieutenant Shilton

Season 3:

Net Loss
Episode 1: Net Loss (Sep 23, 1977)
Downshift
Episode 2: Downshift (Sep 30, 1977)
Fade Out
Episode 5: Fade Out (Nov 04, 1977)
Dancer
Episode 6: Dancer (Dec 05, 1977)
Pete and Mac do a literal song and dance as they help an old vaudeville hoofer try to figure out who took several shots at him onstage, killing his dance partner.
Go for Broke
Episode 7: Go for Broke (Dec 12, 1977)
Thirty Thousand Witnesses
Episode 9: Thirty Thousand Witnesses (Dec 26, 1977)
Pete becomes a rather overage soccer goalie (Robert Wagner, though he looked younger, was 47 at the time of filming) in order to figure out who killed the team's previous goalie and how (the killer uses a camera with a special attachment which shoots a poisoned dart).
The Tong
Episode 11: The Tong (Jan 09, 1978)
Who Killed Lila Craig?
Episode 12: Who Killed Lila Craig? (Jan 16, 1978)
Mac reacquaints himself with a number of people he hasn't seen in years after he and Pete reopen the case of a glamorous actress who was murdered 30 years earlier.
Three Blond Mice
Episode 13: Three Blond Mice (Jan 30, 1978)
Soem interesting underwater (swimming pool) footage highlights this episode as Pete and Mac -- in full business suits and at their ages (over 70 for Eddie Albert) dive in to defuse a nuclear bomb threatening to take out a society party and much of Los Angeles to boot. This episode was broadcast on August 6, 1978 (possinly its first run) just before the TV news announced the death of Pope Paul VI.
Blue Crusaders Reunion
Episode 17: Blue Crusaders Reunion (May 05, 1978)
Pete tags along when Mac attends a reunion of his old police buddies, but the event takes a dark turn as someone is killing off the attendees one by one.
Play-off
Episode 19: Play-off (Jun 18, 1978)
Ryan is forced to protect a kingpin's son at a golf tournament, otherwise Malcolm's life is forfeit.
The Cage
Episode 20: The Cage (Jun 25, 1978)
The series began a summer run (ironically, enjoying its best ratings since the first season and tremendously better than it had done in the fall) with an episode about kidnappers grabbing the brother of a photographic model -- the brother is a veterinary student specializing in large-animal surgery, which he is to be forced to use to remove diamonds from the hide of an African rhinoceros recently imported to Los Angeles. Watch very fast for Natalie Wood bidding her then-husband Robert Wagner (Pete) goodbye from a bathtub at about the 10th minute.
The Siege at the Bouziki Bar
Episode 22: The Siege at the Bouziki Bar (Jul 09, 1978)
The near-ultimate in budget-conscious "bottle shows" (all but two scenes are filmed inside Malcolm's Bouziki Bar; Pamela Bellwood and two firemen are the only guest actors; and much of the show is in flashbacks) finds Pete, Mac, Malcolm and Maggie trapped inside the bar with a very pregnant murder witness while mob hit men search unseen for a way in. Some sources give this episode's air date as August 13, 1978, when the show was run off as a summer series (and did very well in the ratings).

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